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a ong, aired with revolute ma ules crinaguber Jeni poe Ae 
ciliate; involucre axillary, solitary, rene re hairy outside 
and in the throat, lobes triangula gated; glands ovate with a very 
narrow lobulate appendage; style short, 2-parted, somewhat thickened 
at the apex; capsule hirsute with appressed hairs; carpels obtusely eari- 
nate; seed oblong, 4-angled, transv _— wrinkled. —Purgatory River, 
Dr, cee 
BUPHORBIA PETALOIDEA, Engelm. DC. Prod., 15,2d pt., p.28. Glab- 
rous; at dichotomous, procumbent or ascending: leaves attenuate to 
the scarcely oblique base, oblong-linear or linear, elliptic, 5-7” long, 
13-2” broad, obtuse, mucronu ate, entire ; stipules subulate, somewhat 
entire; involucres, solitary, 0 npe edicels about their own length, campanu- 
late, lobes hairy beneath the glands within, minutely -ciliate, triangular, 
acute; glands subor biculate, concave, with an entire ovate appendage 3 
times their breadth; style short, bifid; the carpels of the depressed 
capsule rounded; a aia acute, obsoletely 4-angled.— Hall & Har- 
bour, 512. Caiion City, Brandegee. Near Denver, Dr. Smith £ £ Bs de 
th. 
“hpi pan FENDLERI,T. &G. DC. sickger 15, 2d pt., p. 38. Glabrous, = 
from a slender, short, sere what woody roo stock; ste ms numerous, deli- 
cately filiform, rather rigid, erect or cudnt much bra nched dichoto- 
mously 2/4’ high; leaves i 24” lo ong, ovate — om a rounded base, obtuse, 
i teres minal, soli 
age; style short, divaricate, bifid; ee 1” broad, furnished with a 
small, somewhat. 6-lobed calyx; carpels obtusely carinate; seed pai. : 
4-angled, “ay scrobiculate-punctate.—Hall "Harbour, 513, C 
EUPHORBIA R OLUTA, Engelm. DC. Prod. is? ot., p. 46. Glab- 
reus; stem erect, filiform, eked below w, much branched above the middle, 
4! hi igh; leaves or. -12” long, 3” wide, aoa nes entire, 0 
rathe 
revolute o ins, attenuated below, base rather oblique, short- 
petioled; stipules subulate, entire; involucres very small, uppermost in, 
the fork e branches and terminal, somewh neate, short-cam- 
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panulate, lobes triangular-lanceolate, ciliate; glands purple, 3 or 4 times 
onder than the whitish or reddish, oblong appendage; pobre. short, 
bifid; capsule glabrous, acute, carinate, 4” jong ; seed oblong, sharply 
4angled, s sparingly and irregularly rugose. .—Cation City, Brandegee. 
_ EUPHORBIA MACULATA, L.—Plains near Denver, Coulter. 
EUPHORBIA GLYPTOSPERMA, Engelm.—Ca os are gee. Colo- 
rado Sprinss, Porter. Canby. Near Denver, Dr. 8 
_EUPHORBIA HEXAGONA, Nutt. DC. Prod., 15, 2d p . Som 
meu with aasactes appressed hairs; stem cadens: Tae. high, pee 
A ane opposite and dichotomous, striate- angled, lower ones 6/ 
oe Sete leave al) SRD Ih er mt linear AAD SAD 4 attenuate wr 
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